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Banking

Cover Story: Rising Oil Prices Boost Confidence

Emerging Markets Focus: Middle East The outlook for the Middle East’s economy has brightened substantially in recent months, but the reluctance of banks to lend remains worrisome. Bond issues are picking up some of the slack. By Gordon ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Middle East

Roundup By Gordon Platt ExxonMobil is first US company to win Iraq oil contract A joint venture of ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell has clinched a $50 billion deal to develop one of Iraq’s biggest oil fields, the ...

Award Winners

World’s Best Internet Banks Part II

BANKS DEVELOP SOCIAL SKILLS In the second of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the best global and regional Internet banks. By Adam Rombel Not many of the headlines about the global banking industry in the ...

Award Winners

BEST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROVIDERS 2010

Global Finance names the World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers 2010 NEW YORK, November 17, 2009 Global Finance magazine has named...

Award Ceremonies and Events

Features: Awards Ceremony: World’s Best Banks 2009

Location: IMF Annual Meetings, Istanbul WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2009 Global Finance’s 13th annual Best Banks awards ceremony was held in early October in Istanbul, as the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank were ...

Banking

Milestones: IFC Sukuk To Boost Nascent GCC Debt Markets

Middle East By Gordon Platt Sulaiman: Keen to develop efficient capital markets In its first sukuk to raise long-term funds in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is giving a shot in the arm ...

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BIGGEST EMERGING MARKET BANKS 2009

Global Finance Ranks the 200 Biggest Emerging Market Banks. NEW YORK, October 15, 2009 — As the world’s key emerging...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance Focus: M&A

By Gordon Platt Sovereign wealth funds could play a big supporting role as global mergers and acquisitions try to get back on track following a dramatic slowdown in M&A; activity during the credit crisis and global recession. While they ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Sovereign Wealth Funds Prepare To Take More Active Role In M&A

By Gordon Platt Sovereign wealth funds could play a big supporting role as global mergers and acquisitions try to get back on track following a dramatic slowdown in M&A; activity during the credit crisis and global recession. While they ...

Banking

Features: World’s Safest Banks

THE WORLD’S SAFEST BANKS 2009 Global Finance selects the world’s safest banks, the 50 institutions with the highest ratings from the leading international credit ratings agencies. By Dan Keeler After two tumultuous years that saw many of ...

Award Winners

WORLD’S BEST BANKS 2009

Istanbul, October 6th, 2009 – Global Finance magazine hosted its thirteenth annual Best Bank Awards ceremony on October 6th, 2009,...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story: Emerging Powerhouses

Far from collapsing under the weight of the recent financial crisis, the biggest emerging markets are powering the next wave of global growth. By Laurence Neville In its July World Economic Update,the International Monetary Fund said that the ...